Am 07.03.2012 17:04, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:> Another not-so-technical comment.>> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:06 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:>> The following patch set implements checkpointing support for>> UBI. Checkpointing is an optional feature which stores the physical to>> logical eraseblock relations in a checkpointing superblock to reduce>> the initialization time of UBI.>> So this is basically about improving scalability and "mount" time. This> has nothing to do with checkpointing most people are aware of.> Confusing...

Mostly because "checkpointing" is a buzzword. ;-)

> Really, this tirm is already reserved by file-systems, things like> virtual machines where it means "freezing" the contents and doing COW> when changing the freezed blocks and guaranteeing the ability to> "roll-back" to the checkpointed data.>> Please, consider an option of picking a different name. In JFFS2 a> "similar" thing was called "summaries", and even this is better than> "checkpoint", I think.

What about "Erase block indexing"?Basically a checkpoint is an index...